Most probes orbit worlds or fly past them. In January 2005, Europe's Huygens did something far rarer: it landed. Carried ...

Nearly 50 years ago, NASA launched what would become its first interstellar spacecraft, and this year Voyager 1 is set to ...

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The spacecraft that famously brought asteroid Ryugu samples to Earth in 2020 has flown right by another space rock.

Saturn is among the worst offenders. With its giant system of rings and moons and its extremely orderly magnetic field, the ...

A symbol of Florida's Space Coast, the VAB at Kennedy Space Center has powered moon missions past and present. Here is its ...

WASHINGTON - One of the solar system's most evocative mysteries - the origin of Saturn's rings - may be a case of cosmic murder, new research suggests. The victim: an unnamed moon of Saturn that ...

Nearly half a century ago, a spacecraft roughly the size of a small car set off from the Florida coast atop a rocket to begin what was supposed to be a five-year journey. This week, NASA announced it ...

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In 2034 NASA scientists will be flying around Titan. Remotely, of course—Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, is more than a billion kilometers away from Earth, a journey no human can yet make. It’s also ...